No 2m entry this month due to family duties, however I did make it out for 70cm.

This was the first appearance of my newly-finished 23-element yagi. Unfortunately conditions were not good so there wasn't much demonstrable improvement over the old 7-element one. An additional problem was that whilst it is quite easy to get the 7-element up to the full 6m mast height (and I think 9m might be quite straightforward too, if I don't put the rotator too far up), I had to limit the mast to...

Having passed my full license exam, and now that you can essentially pick whichever (unissued) callsign you want, my mind has turned to trying to work out how to define a 'good' callsign. What I settled on is...

1. Callsign should not contain character combinations that are used for other purposes, e.g. 'CQ'

2. Callsign should not end in 'K', as that could be confusing in Morse.

3. For Morse, shorter (i.e. fewer dots and dashes) is better, and...

I sat my full license exam at the 2019 RSGB convention, and passed!

Final score was 48/58 (83%, pass mark was 37/58). I completed the 2 hour exam in about 45 minutes so I was a bit nervous about clicking the 'submit' button, but turns out there was nothing to worry about, I seem to have picked up sufficient knowledge in my 20 years of being a novice/intermediate licensee.

Now I need to wait for confirmation and apply for a new callsign!